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Care Quality Commission admits its banding system wrongly labelled 60 practices as potentially putting patients at risk
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Review headed by Sir David Dalton suggests companies could be contracted to manage publicly-funded hospitals, pointing to Spain as example
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Government says NHS is equipped to manage extra demand, as figures show attendances at A&Es up 5% on last year
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Healthcare workers from across the UK will join volunteers who flew to Sierra Leone in November
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Majority of trusts fail to deal with third-party complaints in the right way, missing a chance to enact positive change
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A different type of social network started by Christmas appeal charity Mind is responding to popular demand – with a little help from Stephen Fry
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The health service’s inability to adapt to change for the benefit of patients is the hardest thing David Morgan deals with at work
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Norfolk chief constable Simon Bailey believes thousands on police database ‘pose no threat’ and don’t belong in prison
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The chancellor has accused his critics of hyperbole, but his autumn statement leaves him little room for manoeuvre
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Death of Darren Hughes and Robert Stuart given worm-infected kidneys ‘unintended [outcome] of necessary intervention’
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This year the Guardian and Observer Christmas appeal in on mental health. We take a look at the most prevalent psychiatric disorders in the UK
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How London is improving mental health crisis care
Matthew PatrickRepresentatives from 22 organisations, including the NHS and Met police, work together to deliver crisis care to save lives
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Letters: There is a developing fracture between patient and doctor due to a mismatch in expectation and reality: general practice is at a tipping point
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Milli Hill, Ellie Gibson, Joseph Harker: Nice guidelines now suggest that 45% of births are unsuitable for hospital wards but does this chime with out writers’ experiences?
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Richard Stein: Labour is no longer a radical campaigning force for social change, nor is it for working people. It’s time to move on
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The injection of cash might stave off a crisis before the election, but the next government faces a much bigger challenge
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Rachel Pugh: It started with his specialist accident team in Manchester. Now Tony Redmond is co-ordinating the NHS’s international response to the Ebola crisis
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NHS guidance from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence suggests 45% of births ‘unsuitable’ for labour wards
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Ann Robinson: As a working GP, I understand why a Devon surgery thinks its doctors need to be left to get on with their core job
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Andy Burnham announces Labour's proposals to bring social care services under the remit of the NHS to care for people better in their own homes
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Autumn statement’s promise of extra funds for health service answers urgent calls for more money
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Alongside positive reaction to Simon Stevens’ plan are voices of some angry doctors – which suggests better leadership is needed, writes Dick Vinegar
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The Google-backed genotyping service can screen for common genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anaemia
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Practice in Newton Abbot forced to back down after it suggested that patients should not seek consultation for range of ailments
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Editorial: Debate on the NHS needs to face the facts about demand for services and the money to pay for them
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Views from the NHS frontline I love working in mental health – but I can’t do a good job on a shoestring
Department of Health wants mental and physical health to be seen as equal but scarce resources make it impossible -
David Owen: The coalition’s 2012 health reform act was disastrous. It can be overturned – but time is running out
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Research suggests faults in NHS records may impact the identification of disease prevalence in different ethnic groups
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Labour dismiss announcement as ‘spin’ after it emerges that £750m of extra funding is recycled health department cash
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Chancellor George Osborne's extra NHS cash is equivalent to rummaging down the back of the sofa for change to feed the electricity meter
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NHS England plans delayed amid claims that concentrating specialist services into 40-70 hospitals would be ‘political suicide’
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Shadow health minister also says party would look at making referrals for physical activity available through GPs
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Chancellor George Osborne expected to reveal plans to bolster funding for frontline health services
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Place found for teenager following Twitter outburst by senior officer at Devon and Cornwall Police
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Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’